<p>Ah crap!:(</p>
<p>Don’t worry Ann and Sean will still be there!</p>
<p>Rush is not the poster child for everyone who leans to the right. some of us are moderates and listen to him and coulter less than the liberals do.</p>
<p>Not my mouthpiece, that’s for sure</p>
<p>I actually listen to him, Laura, Randi Rhodes and Al Franken…it is good to see both sides and make a decision from there</p>
<p>OOPs forgot Glen Beck</p>
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<p>fundingfather wrote exactly what I was thinking. He is only 49. Give him time.</p>
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<p>Lieberman is not necessarily anathema to a lot of Republicans. He used to be quite a supporter of school choice proposals. I’m not sure that makes him electable, although it works for me.</p>
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My man Rush will do just fine regardless of the outcome of the race just as he’s done in the past.</p>
<p>Condie Rice for VP???</p>
<p>^^^Well, I guess that does solve the problem of whether to go for a female or an African American.</p>
<p>Yeah - but I was thinking more from the perspective of a smart person with lots of international experience even though she’s not held an office (is that a bad thing for a VP??).</p>
<p>McCain/Rice I could vote for. But I suspect Rice is not conservative enough for the right wing? I don’t know. Rice on the VP ticket would certainly be a huge plus not just in terms of the black/female issue but also in terms of having someone who is level-headed and can hopefully stabilize McCain’s volatile temperament.</p>
<p>Edit: Condi is on record as having called herself “mildly pro-choice”, something that might be a non-starter with the right wing. </p>
<p>It would work great for moderate republicans, many democrats and independents like me, so McCain could simply decide to abandon the right wingers and still win the election. I could get very excited by that ticket and perhaps even choose it over Obama.</p>
<p>U U dad, Yes, I understand the motivation. </p>
<p>She’s never had to be elected to anything, but hasn’t that been true of other VPs? </p>
<p>I have to admit, I don’t really know her positions on a lot of domestic social issues. Are you more informed than I am about that stuff?</p>
<p>I like her, but I don’t know enough to predict if she will help the ticket. (I should admit that all my predictions up to this point have been dead wrong, so wrong I don’t trust my own opinions.)</p>
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<p>Please, please yes! ;)</p>
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<p>And to keep him in a catatonic opiate-induced state of euphoria…</p>
<p>Personally, I think Huckabee is a likely VP. Carries different states, pacifies the Evangelicals and probably drives them to the polls, to an extent. Steele could potentially be good, though the lack of experience is an issue.</p>
<p>Condi would be great in terms of demographics, but she doesn’t really add anything policy-wise, since her largest hallmarks in politics have been related to national security and the War on Terror, things McCain is clearly in control of.</p>
<p>BTW: Anyone who can say that the VP choice doesn’t matter must have been asleep these last 8 years when the VP was calling most of the shots.</p>
<p>After Dick Cheney (quite possibly the most vile public figure in our country today) I will certainly pay great attention to the choice of VP.</p>
<p>I don’t think Condi is possible because she’s damaged by her association with Bush.</p>
<p>How 'bout Bobby Jindal?</p>
<p>Anyway, we should come to a cc consensus and then inform Senator McCain!</p>
<p>Bobby Jindal? Excuse me while I go take my emergency anti-emetic.</p>
<p>Jindal is very young (36). I don’t want anyone in that office who is young enough to be my son. I still have teenagers!</p>
<p>Seriously, a little more experience would be comforting.</p>
<p>Does McCain really need a conservative for VP? If her doesn’t pick one, where the heck are they going to go?</p>
<p>Conversely, does anyone really think black or female Democrats are going to come over to the GOP if it picks one of those for a VP?</p>
<p>“Conversely, does anyone really think black or female Democrats are going to come over to the GOP if it picks one of those for a VP?”</p>
<p>Of course not, but I plan to spend the next 5-6 months having buckets of fun in speculating and plan to propose every republican I can think of simply for the fun of it. I have the NY Post edition from last election where the headline said that Kerry had chosen Gephardt. I loooove this stuff.</p>
<p>I do believe that McCain must chose wisely. I like Condi, but I think she is too much of a hawk.</p>
<p>I really like Michael Steele</p>
<p>I think Bill Crist would be a good choice or lets really throw a wrinkle in and get Richardson…hahahaha</p>
<p>In the end it will be a candidate from a purple state that can also offset McCain’s flaws.</p>
<p>Romney will be given a position. I think he’ll set up for Guiliani as Homeland, Romney as SOT or Fed, Lieberman as SOD or SOS. This way he covers all of his bases</p>
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<p>The pundits claim the ‘conservatives’ will stay home rather than vote for McCain. I don’t believe it. But I didn’t think Huckabee would come within one percentage point of taking our state primary either, so what do I know?</p>